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Sonatype BOM Doctor Evaluates and Helps Patch Java Software Bills of Materials
BOM Doctor is a free, GitHub-hosted tool created by Sonatype to scan software bills of materials (SBOMs) and identify vulnerabilities and legal issues.
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MariaDB 11.0 Brings a New Optimizer Cost Model and More
After 10 years since the last release, MariaDB Server 11.0 has been released, bringing a new optimizer cost model which aims to predict more accurately the actual cost of each query execution plan, removed InnoDB change buffer, and so on.
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Sustainability for Development and Operations with DevSusOps
For a sustainability transformation, a business has to figure out how to measure its carbon footprint, come up with a plan to change the way it powers everything, and change the products they’re making, and even the markets that they operate in. Adrian Cockcroft spoke about sustainability in development and operations at QCon San Francisco 2022.
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Microsoft Joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member
Microsoft has officially joined the FinOps Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes financial management in cloud technology.
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New CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Lambda Asynchronous Invocations
AWS recently added three new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Lambda: AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge, and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing.
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Microsoft Quietly Updates .NET Language Strategy
On February 6th 2023, Kathleen Dollard, principal program manager on .NET team at Microsoft, posted an update of the .NET language strategy. The new document is a continuation of the same ideas from the previous one, written in 2017, where C# and F# are the evolving languages and VB.NET is a niche language.
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Faster Startup Time and Lower Memory Usage: New CRT HTTP Client in AWS SDK for Java
AWS recently announced the general availability of the Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The new asynchronous client provides faster SDK startup time and a smaller memory footprint improving Lambda serverless workloads.
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GitLab Improves Merge Requests, GitOps Functionality and More
GitLab has released further point versions of their DevOps software package. Versions 15.3 through 15.9 been released on a monthly cadence. GitLab's first machine-learning powered feature improves merge request approvals, with other significant improvements and fixes ranging from GitOps enhancements, through improvements to IdP, to new functionality for DAST.
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Platform Engineering Challenges: Small Teams, Build Versus Buy, and Building the Wrong Thing
The team at Syntasso wrote a series of blog posts outlining twelve challenges that platform teams face. These challenges include having a small platform team support a large organization, failing to understand the needs of the platform users, and struggling with the build-vs-buy argument.
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Android 14 Brings Partial Support for OpenJDK 17, Improved Privacy and Security, and More
Google has announced the first Android 14 beta, which provides support for over 300 OpenJDK 17 classes. Additionally, it implements a number of features aimed to keep malicious apps at bay and extends support for foldable form factors, battery usage optimization, and more.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop AI Model for Human Detection via WiFi
Researchers from the Human Sensing Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have published a paper on DensePose From WiFi, an AI model which can detect the pose of multiple humans in a room using only the signals from WiFi transmitters. In experiments on real-world data, the algorithm achieves an average precision of 87.2 at the 50% IOU threshold.
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Google Adds New Pricing Model to Its Security Command Center
Google recently announced several new updates to its Security Command Center (SCC) with a pay-as-you-go pricing model and two capabilities: deployments at the project level and self-service activation.
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InfluxData Releases Its New Database Engine in InfluxDB Cloud
InfluxData releases into general availability the new version of its database engine called Influx IOx. It is now available to be used in InfluxDB Cloud.
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Software Supply Chain Framework OSC&R Created to Help Mitigate Security Threats
In collaboration with companies including Google, Microsoft, and GitLab, OX Security has released a security framework for assessing and evaluating software supply chain security risks. The Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference (OSC&R) is a MITRE-like framework covering containers, open-source software, secrets hygiene, and CI/CD posture.
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Unsupervised Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation Using Deep Learning
Meta AI released CutLER, a state-of-the-art zero-shot unsupervised object detector which improves detection performance by over 2.7 times on 11 benchmark datasets for different domains like video frames, painting, sketches, etc. This model’s simplicity allows compatibility with different object-detection architectures across different domains.